Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-14
BIRmINGHAM MATTERS.

| The NIethodists And Conference.-The People Stirred Up About the Borough Building Matter-The Borough Needs 1 aMorgue-Es1nIs on the Subject-The Borough Election.
 l BIRMINGHAM, April 13-It is quite probable
 l that the Methodists who have been counting
 | on the assignment of Rev. I. Simmons to their | church for the next term will be disappoint- ed Conference appointments are not always safe futures" and not infrequently "changes" ! are not as agreeably fix ed to please the \ church and pastor It is the law among Methodists to tumble to the inevitable or do | as the bishop orders, and the Birmingham | adherents of the Wesley pc rsuasion may be
 | obliged to assemble under the aegis of another shepherd than they elect or expect. No
 1 reverend clergyman has been named yet, and ' the field is now open for surmises as to the coming dominic. A paper is in circulation, l a remonstrance for signatures to con tradict any action of the legislature to 1egalize an illegal vote which carried the resolution to | erect aborough building. Those active in favor of the enterprise recognize peculiar state of affairs, and are suing for healing act. There are not few who do not believe the course pursued at the borough meeting was according to the l charter. The petition for "patching" act l persuades Birmingham people that even the I enthusiasts for the new project are of the opinion the vote was ''off." To stop an en- | dorsement by the legislature of this "extra" proceeding is the burden of the paper now in the field for signatures. Medical Examiner
 Beardsley is very eager for morgue to be built or a room to be adapted similarly, for | Birmingham. The need of such & place is l becoming apparent to the undertakers who demur accommodating gratuitously the | bodies of strangers for identification, and others are not found here who are dis posed to furnish "waiting room" for ''unknowns." There is no course I for the medical examiner but to hire l temporary quarters for an unidentified l corpse, and it is an annoyance to an under l taker to keep open house for the idle gazer 1 or the curious in their morbid desire to look on the stranger dead. There is still another I argument in favor of a morgue-that body | detained there can be preserved if the ap-
 | pointments are as prevail in city morgues. | A case, recent and not uncommon, urges the people here to make some provision for those | dying suddenly and away from friends.
 l boarder at Bronson's hotel died last Sunday
 1 morning at three o'clock and the following 1 forenoon the remains were taken to an un- 1 dertaking establishment to await claimant. 1 There they have been kept until yesterday,
 party from Providence having ap- peared to take charge of the body. If in the borough building, in the basement room could be set apart and equipped for this use, the medical examiners | inspection could be more readily conducted | and more fitting disposition made of the | body and it's effects until Identification. Tuesday evening a select german was glv- i en in the Town hall in Shelton. Thirteen | figures were danced. The affair was under | the patronage of Mrs. Dr. Phelps, Mrs. Wooster, Mrs. Warming and Mrs. Arnold | Nettleton.
 To morrow night the Knights of Pythias No 4, Valley lodge, give ball in Nathan's | hall.
 The annual borough election occurs two weeks from next Monday. No street talk nor private states have evoked the ordinary | interest, and it may be the event will at | tract less zeal this year than formerly. The | honors are light and empty of lucre.